Nathan (PixelPipes)
@pixelpipes.bsky.social
Retro computer and 3D hardware enthusiast, host and creator of the PixelPipes YouTube channel. Follow me to relive the glory days of 3D graphics! (He/Him)
https://www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes
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GeForce FX 5950 Ultra vs Radeon 9800XT // Card Battles
YouTube video by PixelPipes
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The newest Card Battles video closes the chapter on the first generation of DirectX 9 GPUs.
The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra versus the Radeon 9800XT
Can the last and fastest FX Series flagship redeem NVIDIA's troubled architecture?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3m...
The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra versus the Radeon 9800XT
Can the last and fastest FX Series flagship redeem NVIDIA's troubled architecture?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3m...
Ideally I wish they'd delay the Steam Machine in order to upgrade the GPU to Navi 44. According to TPU, die size and TDP is very similar to Navi 33. But the performance and feature jump would be MASSIVE.
This thing launches in 2026 and will have a GPU that by then will likely be two generations old
This thing launches in 2026 and will have a GPU that by then will likely be two generations old
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Ideally I wish they'd delay the Steam Machine in order to upgrade the GPU to Navi 44. According to TPU, die size and TDP is very similar to Navi 33. But the performance and feature jump would be MASSIVE.
This thing launches in 2026 and will have a GPU that by then will likely be two generations old
This thing launches in 2026 and will have a GPU that by then will likely be two generations old
Dayum
Crysis (2007) is now as old as Astro Marine Corps (1989) was when Crysis was released.
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Dayum
More than anything I'm pretty excited to see SteamOS for desktops and what that might mean for the enthusiast PC market
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
More than anything I'm pretty excited to see SteamOS for desktops and what that might mean for the enthusiast PC market
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Why am I taking a selfie in front of a random office building? This is a former Maxtor office and where several versions of the ATA/ATAPI spec were written. While working on #PicoIDE I noticed that the work address of the editor was literally right next door to where I work so I made a pilgrimage!
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Why am I taking a selfie in front of a random office building? This is a former Maxtor office and where several versions of the ATA/ATAPI spec were written. While working on #PicoIDE I noticed that the work address of the editor was literally right next door to where I work so I made a pilgrimage!
Today I replaced the worst looking caps I've ever seen on a graphics card
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Today I replaced the worst looking caps I've ever seen on a graphics card
The newest Card Battles video closes the chapter on the first generation of DirectX 9 GPUs.
The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra versus the Radeon 9800XT
Can the last and fastest FX Series flagship redeem NVIDIA's troubled architecture?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3m...
The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra versus the Radeon 9800XT
Can the last and fastest FX Series flagship redeem NVIDIA's troubled architecture?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3m...
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra vs Radeon 9800XT // Card Battles
YouTube video by PixelPipes
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The newest Card Battles video closes the chapter on the first generation of DirectX 9 GPUs.
The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra versus the Radeon 9800XT
Can the last and fastest FX Series flagship redeem NVIDIA's troubled architecture?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3m...
The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra versus the Radeon 9800XT
Can the last and fastest FX Series flagship redeem NVIDIA's troubled architecture?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3m...
Hey guys! Sooooo..... I re-launched my YouTube Memberships!
Just two tiers this time, Texel for $1.99, and Shader for $5.99. If you'd like to support the nonsense that I do, please consider joining!
www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes
Just two tiers this time, Texel for $1.99, and Shader for $5.99. If you'd like to support the nonsense that I do, please consider joining!
www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Hey guys! Sooooo..... I re-launched my YouTube Memberships!
Just two tiers this time, Texel for $1.99, and Shader for $5.99. If you'd like to support the nonsense that I do, please consider joining!
www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes
Just two tiers this time, Texel for $1.99, and Shader for $5.99. If you'd like to support the nonsense that I do, please consider joining!
www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes
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And for anyone interested, here are the project files free to use! www.printables.com/model/147282...
I’d love to see someone restore their own Halikan, or maybe even use as a base to install some modern sleeper hardware inside.
I’d love to see someone restore their own Halikan, or maybe even use as a base to install some modern sleeper hardware inside.
Chaplet Halikan LA-30A Reproduction Case by polymatt | Download free STL model | Printables.com
www.printables.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
And for anyone interested, here are the project files free to use! www.printables.com/model/147282...
I’d love to see someone restore their own Halikan, or maybe even use as a base to install some modern sleeper hardware inside.
I’d love to see someone restore their own Halikan, or maybe even use as a base to install some modern sleeper hardware inside.
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy
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New video up! Just finished the massive project of restoring/rebuilding @lgr-yt.bsky.social’s destroyed Chaplet Halikan LA-30A. This was a big one 😅. Enjoy!
youtu.be/BilLgXkR_Kw
youtu.be/BilLgXkR_Kw
Restoration or Resurrection? Re-creating a rare 80's laptop from the ground up
YouTube video by polymatt
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
New video up! Just finished the massive project of restoring/rebuilding @lgr-yt.bsky.social’s destroyed Chaplet Halikan LA-30A. This was a big one 😅. Enjoy!
youtu.be/BilLgXkR_Kw
youtu.be/BilLgXkR_Kw
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please look at the cow from Hard Drivin’
November 27, 2024 at 3:47 PM
please look at the cow from Hard Drivin’
Every time I decide to give autocorrect another try on my phone, it invariably starts to "correct" words that are blatantly spelled correctly.
"Do"? You obviously meant "don't"!
"Do"? You obviously meant "don't"!
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Every time I decide to give autocorrect another try on my phone, it invariably starts to "correct" words that are blatantly spelled correctly.
"Do"? You obviously meant "don't"!
"Do"? You obviously meant "don't"!
My kingdom for being able to open OBS Studio without it crashing the whole system every other time.
November 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My kingdom for being able to open OBS Studio without it crashing the whole system every other time.
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The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.
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Closest you could get to 3Dfx gaming on a laptop back in the day.
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Closest you could get to 3Dfx gaming on a laptop back in the day.
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Coincidently, I got my hands on a variant of this chip this week: the AM9080AD1B (a military grade variant of the 9080 made in 1977). An interesting piece of silicon history for sure!
October 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Coincidently, I got my hands on a variant of this chip this week: the AM9080AD1B (a military grade variant of the 9080 made in 1977). An interesting piece of silicon history for sure!
Cool short article on AMD's early history, with the Am9080, showing how aggressive and cunning they were at replicating and coercing a license from Intel early in their foray into microprocessors
www.techspot.com/news/110011-...
www.techspot.com/news/110011-...
AMD's Am9080 at 50: The reverse-engineered chip that launched AMD into the CPU era
The Am9080 arrived in mass production in 1975 as AMD's version of Intel's 8080 – an instruction-set-compatible implementation built on AMD's own n-channel MOS process rather than...
www.techspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Cool short article on AMD's early history, with the Am9080, showing how aggressive and cunning they were at replicating and coercing a license from Intel early in their foray into microprocessors
www.techspot.com/news/110011-...
www.techspot.com/news/110011-...
So apparently Windows RAID > built in motherboard RAID (in my case AMD-RAIDXpert2)
I thought having hardware RAID would perform better. Nope! Writing files to the array was excruciatingly slow, dropping down to the single-digit MB/s at times, or stalling altogether.
I thought having hardware RAID would perform better. Nope! Writing files to the array was excruciatingly slow, dropping down to the single-digit MB/s at times, or stalling altogether.
October 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So apparently Windows RAID > built in motherboard RAID (in my case AMD-RAIDXpert2)
I thought having hardware RAID would perform better. Nope! Writing files to the array was excruciatingly slow, dropping down to the single-digit MB/s at times, or stalling altogether.
I thought having hardware RAID would perform better. Nope! Writing files to the array was excruciatingly slow, dropping down to the single-digit MB/s at times, or stalling altogether.
Why is it I spent two months researching, and considerable YT monies on a major mic upgrade, only to find out...
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Why is it I spent two months researching, and considerable YT monies on a major mic upgrade, only to find out...
End the presidential pardon
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
End the presidential pardon
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RIP Drew Struzan
A master.
A master.
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
RIP Drew Struzan
A master.
A master.
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I love a reminder, especially one as gorgeous as this - that for all our human drama, there are forces that know nothing of our petty chaos and they just keep on going.
#sunrise
#sunrise
October 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I love a reminder, especially one as gorgeous as this - that for all our human drama, there are forces that know nothing of our petty chaos and they just keep on going.
#sunrise
#sunrise